Federal Military Spouse Hiring Preference Now Expanded

Week of February 20, 2017

Military.com

Military spouse hiring preference gives military spouses who have moved to a new location under military orders a leg up in the Defense Department federal job market. In the past the program, known as the Priority Placement Program, or PPP-S, had a qualifier: it could only be used up to two years after a PCS. That meant the clock started ticking for use on the report date of those PCS orders. But that two year cap is now no longer in play thanks to a measure included in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. For more details, see this Spousebuzz post.